[TheForge] Beware the quiet welder

[Jerry Frost]

Around here willow is #1 but birch and alder are right 
up there, especially in spring. If fall dropped leaves 
in a better manner we'd vacuum them up, dry and store 
them for winter. Unfortunately fall is usually really 
wet here so all we'd be doing is killing them with leaf 
mold.

Of the woody herbs their favorite is Devil's Club a 
pungent bitter thorn covered noxious weed that can grow 
6-7' high and punch right through leather gloves. They 
love the stuff and will literally paw through the 
remains of winter's snow where it grows and check daily 
till shoots show then chew them off at the ground. 
Outside of Using Roundup a couple years in a row it's 
the ONLY way I know of to get rid of Devil's Club.

Makes pretty good tea though.

Goats have nutrient radar and go for the best eats 
around. You might consider collecting their favorite 
leaves, drying them and feeding them back during the 
winter a bit at a time. It's a good way to keep them 
healthy and happy till spring. Just watch for mold, 
it's a killer.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>


> My goats like sweet leaves - they go nuts over black 
> locust.
>